11+ Giveaway Software you can use to start giveaways/contests

There are a plethora of sites that organize giveaway/contests with prizes that range from software to various other items. If you are looking for such a list, you can check the big List of Software Giveaway Sites. However, if you are a blog/site owner that wants to organize a giveaway/contest, you will need a software/web app that helps you do that. A giveaway software helps as you just need to add details about a certain giveaway and it will handle entries. Most will allow users to signup using their emails, but also using a social account. Also, they will handle “entry multipliers” which basically means that if a participant wants it can increase the number of entries by sharing the giveaway.

Below is an extensive list of 11 (and counting) giveaway web apps that you can use to organize your own giveaway/sweepstake/contest:

Rafflecopter

The defacto leader of giveaway softwares, Rafflecopter provides a very easy and fully-featured web app to help you run a giveaway. No special knowledge required, you just create an account (they have a free tier), create your promotion then load a script on your site. It will handle everything from entry management to randomly picking the winner and then exporting them. There are other paid plans as well that have a few more features, but as of right now Rafflecopter is what I use too.

Gleam Competitions

Gleam Competitions is a newer player in the market of giveaway software. It is a bit more though, more like a social media promotion tool that uses contest/giveaways to increase awareness of your social media accounts. You can organize giveaways with unlimited users, set up your own custom branding, create unlimited competitions, allows unlimited entries and more.

Giveaway Tools (GT)

Giveaway Tools (GT) is a web app that acts as a social promotion tool which allows any webmaster to create an embeddable widget on their site for giveaways or contests. The app is currently in beta so there’s no paid version. It’s pretty straightforward to create a campaign and start it, not many features but does the job well.

Unfortunately only the giveaway software mentioned above offers a free tier of some kind, the others below are still web apps that let you create giveaways but they only have paid/trial tiers.

Woobox

Woobox is a giveaway software that helps create promotions and engage visitors with giveaways and contests. If anything, their web app does look amazingly beautiful. They mention that up to 4 million brands use their software to create marketing campaigns.

Votigo

Votigo is focused on social media marketing, more than a general giveaway software. You can use it to create social media contest and sweepstakes so Facebook contests, video contest, photo contests, sweepstakes, UGC and much more. Paid versions only.

Heyo

Use Heyo to easily create Sweepstakes, Contests, and Campaign apps that publish to mobile, facebook, and anywhere on the web. This is a more generalist giveaway software, so not only targeted for social media only.

Features:

Campaigns optimized for every device

Pre-made giveaway templates that are built to convert

Easy drag and drop editor

Built-in sharing features

Organize sweepstakes, photo contests, group deals, hashtag promotions and more